"We Are Marshall" Features Greek Involvement
December 22, 2006
The new film "We Are Marshall", which focuses on the 1970 tragic football team plane crash, has a heavy Greek involvement. The two main stars are Matthew McConaughey (Delta Tau Delta) as new 1971 head coach Jack Lengyel and Matthew Fox (Phi Gamma Delta), who plays assistant coach William "Red" Dawson (Lambda Chi Alpha). Playing McConaughey's wife is Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Alpha Phi). Former Georgia record-setting kicker Billy Bennett (Kappa Alpha Order) plays Marshall kicker Blake Smith (Sigma Phi Epsilon). An actor portrays Bobby Bowden (Pi Kappa Alpha), who was head coach at West Virginia and helped the Marshall coaching staff following the crash. Early game footage features quarterback Ted Shoebridge, who was one of five Pi Kappa Alpha players who died in the crash.
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